Powerful.
Blood Diamond
“The one thing I’ve learned is that miracles need to be built. Work, sweat, persist, vomit, and run until your legs give out.”
Nike - The Day the Stadium Spoke
Pure Ego, yet something honest and nostalgic here that you can’t just Hipstamaticly replicate
Frank Sinatra - My Way
“Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked on top of each other”
Ray Lewis Inspirational Speech for Elon Football Team
Skip to minute 5:04 if the smart-link doesn’t work…
“You could like uh … I put my orange, four inch, door hinge, in storage, and ate porridge, with George - ya I actually dive myself insane with it”
Eminem - Bending the words - Passion? Talent? Skill? Brilliance? Obsession? Insanity? a fine line..
Transparent confident ego from The Champ.
“Bad! Been choppin trees I done something new for this fight. I done wrassled with an alligator; I done tussled with a whale; I done handcuffed lightning; Thrown thunder in jail. That’s Bad! Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick. Bad!”
Muhammad Ali Speech
Too Many Quotables:
“I love living! I think that’s infectious. It’s something you can’t fake”
“Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”
“I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill! You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get on the treadmill together…right?…there’s two things: you’re getting off first, or I’m gonna die. It’s that simple.”
“There’s no reason to have a Plan B, because it distracts from Plan A.”
“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.”
Will Smith’s Wisdom
One Baad Man - I aspire to complete this workout at age 45
Tough Mudder Training
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless… like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; you put it in a tea pot, it becomes the tea pot. Now water can flow, or it can crash - Be water my friend.”
Bruce Lee Lost interview with Pierre Burton - 1971 Hong Kong
“If I only scrape a living, at least it is a living worth scraping. If there is no future in it, then at least the present is worth remembering.”
The Dark Side of the Lens
This speech makes me want to be a better human being…
Charlie Chaplain Speech - The Great Dictator
